DELIVERIES of new DMUs and EMUs to Northern by CAF are running late, although the company introduced a further nine Class 195s over the Calder Valley line between Leeds and Chester via Manchester and Warrington in October.  It takes the number of ‘195s’ in traffic to 29, exactly half the

LNER launched its new Lincoln to King’s Cross ‘Azuma’ service on October 21, increasing the single daily service to five per day.  A sixth service will be introduced at a later stage.  A five-car bi-mode ‘Azuma’ will provide a two-hourly Monday to Friday service departing London at

Walkway for the new Elizabeth Line at Bond Street Station in central London. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire The boss of the company building Crossrail has confirmed the railway will not open next year and has run even further over budget. Crossrail will not open next year and its cost has increased

Photo: Crossrail Crossrail will not open next year and its cost has increased by up to £650 million, the firm building London’s new east-west railway has admitted. Mark Wild, chief executive of Crossrail Ltd, insisted services would begin “as soon as practically possible in 2021”. He revealed the bill for

THE 125 Group has experienced the highs and lows of preservation – all in the space of two days. Just 48 hours after  the team’s disappointment over the decision by the National Railway Museum to terminate the loan agreement for unique Prototype power car No. 41001, there was a feeling

HEAVY rain has blocked and damaged railways, particularly in the North of England.South Yorkshire was the area worst affected, and there were no trains running on Friday morning between Sheffield and Leeds via Moorthorpe, or between Sheffield and Lincoln, Scunthorpe, Hull or Huddersfield. Trams in Sheffield were also affected by

WORK on the first of five Class 153 units to be converted for use by ScotRail on the West Highland line has begun at Brodies in Kilmarnock.  Under ScotRail’s plan, these designated carriages, with space for cycles and large sporting equipment, as well as additional seating, will be used with

THE final two operational Govia Class 313s – Nos. 313064 and 313134 – worked a charity farewell special on October 23 from King’s Cross to Royston, then to Hertford North, before running to Moorgate where the train terminated. The sets were replaced by Class 717s on all Great Northern

THE All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group has supported suggestions that there should be a new ‘guiding mind’ for the operational railway, which would take over many of the functions currently carried out by the Department for Transport, such as awarding franchises and managing their performance. The idea has already been given

THE rail industry has commemorated the thousands of railway workers who lost their lives during World War 1.Network Rail, the Rail Delivery Group, Transport for London, the Railway Industry Association, Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail, the RMT, ASLEF and TSSA were among the organisations at the Railway Workers Centenary Memorial Service, held